Business: The President & the Picket

Thermometers plunged toward zero, and so did labor relations at South
Bend's Studebaker-Packard plant, strikebound for three weeks. As
pickets huddled to keep warm one day last week, a black Mercedes-Benz
picked a path toward the main gate. At the wheel was Studebaker's
Hollywood-handsome president, Sherwood Harry Egbert, 41. Pickets closed
around his sedan, refused to let Egbert through unless he showed a
union pass.

A flying wedge of policemen forced an opening for the Mercedes, and in
the melee a picket took a poke at a patrolman and was arrested. Another
picket,...